I read in the Weekend Australian business section (page 25) an interview with Crawford Rix the (new) CEO of Tiger Australia. I had to have a quiet chuckle about his response to criticism that their on time performance was poor...
Rix repeats his mantra that the on-time performance issues are partly attributable to the airports and the weather and that things will improve when its fleet is bolstered with the delivery of new aircraft later this year.
I guess that means Tiger flys in different weather and to different airports than QF and
VB? Tool. The stats are meaningful precisely because all operators face the same issues. The new aircraft will fix the weather and airports how exactly?
Then there was this...
He says that there were some surprises when he came to Australia last year - the biggest being that "nobody has done low-cost properly yet"
Clearly only Tiger "do it properly."
"The things that surprised me were things like the geography, it is such a huge country and the issues that relate to that are different from what I am used to"
Meaning that my UK experience with BmiBaby will mainly be of little use.